Thanks Gordon, I have selected the drive, and tabbed, the only options I get are; first aid, erase, raid and restore. I can't find anything that says partition.
Any other ideas please? Thanks again, Trevor On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:34, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In Disk Utility, select the drive in the list view of drives which you want > to partition. Note: The drive, not any existing partitions. Then, tab a > couple of times and you'll hit the tab control which is probably on "First > Aid". Move to "Partition" then you will be able to select your partition > type. Note: For a backup of your start disk, make the partition Guid, as > the other options will not allow a modern Mac to start from that partition. > If you intend to create multiple partitions on the drive, adjust the sizes > accordingly. When you are through, hit Partition. You'll be prompted "Are > you sure?" Hit Yes, and away you jolly well go. > > Gordon > > On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:11, John Panarese <[email protected]> wrote: > > You have to choose the item that has the model name and full size of the > drive to partition it. You can't choose any of the volumes of that drive. > In other words, you'd want, 3 TB WD My book, for example, and not the name of > any of the current partitions. > > > > Take Care > > John D. 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